Chapter 147: Medical
Fortunately, the ice hole is not big, and Hong Tao climbed up the ice with all his might...... Climb up, but every time he wants to climb onto the ice, the ice collapses again, and he only feels that the strength in his body is disappearing little by little, and his whole body is frozen like a popsicle, and he is about to be drowned!
"No, I can't give up, I will definitely be able to climb up!" Hong Tao also cheered himself up in his dream, and then gathered all his strength, clasped the ice with his fingers, and wanted to climb up with his strength. But suddenly the ice surface became as soft as the dough, and I couldn't eat it with any strength.
"Oops, you're hurting! Syllable! "Hong Tao was struggling with the ice, and suddenly his hand hurt and he woke up.
"Why didn't you go to work?" The moment I opened my eyes, I saw Zhou Xiaoli sitting next to her head, fighting with her own hand, which didn't catch the ice at all, but grabbed it on the woman's chest, no wonder the ice would become soft!
"You have a fever, I asked for leave to take care of you at home, didn't you take care of me when I was sick?" Breaking free of the hand that was holding on to herself, Zhou Xiaoli took out an ice pack and put it directly on Hong Tao's head.
"How many degrees? I'm in pain all over, get me some medicine. Hong Tao stretched his hands and feet in the quilt, the joints all over his body were sore, he had this symptom before, it was the flu, it was estimated that he got cold on the helicopter yesterday, coupled with the counterattack of the big burger, the resistance decreased, take some antipyretics and cold medicine, endure it for a few days, if you want to cure quickly, then you have to go to the hospital to hang the bottle.
"38 degrees 5, the doctor said that when you are not too uncomfortable, go to his clinic, don't take medicine first, if you can get up now, I will accompany you to the clinic first." Zhou Xiaoli picked up the phone and waited for Hong Tao's answer.
"Clinic? Are private clinics expensive? Isn't it more expensive if I don't have health insurance? It's better not to go, I've had this disease more than once, just find me some medicine to take, such as aspirin, ibuprofen or something. As soon as Hong Tao heard that he went to the clinic, the kind of private doctor immediately appeared in front of him, a cold broke in the domestic hospital has to spend 3 or 5 hundred, and it has to be ten times more here!
"It's not so expensive, the doctor doesn't let you take medicine, you can't take medicine casually, I listened to you at your house at the beginning, but now it's at my house, you should listen to me, you have to do whatever you want, don't talk back!" Zhou Xiaoli probably remembered Hong Tao's coercive measures against her when she was sick, but now she is unchanged and directly returned it.
The clinic is not far away, about 3 kilometres from the community. The doctor at the clinic was a Caucasian woman, about 40 years old, tall and wearing a pair of rimless glasses that looked carved out of a strong woman's mold.
In addition to the doctor, there was also a nurse, also a white woman, who was a little younger. said it was a clinic, but Hong Tao didn't see a single medical device inside, if it weren't for the nurse's sister-in-law still wearing a white coat, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was an office.
After waiting in the waiting room at the entrance for a few minutes, the nurse's sister-in-law took Hong Tao and Zhou Xiaoli into the doctor's room, which was the same as the overall layout outside, it was completely an office, and even the doctor was wearing civilian clothes. Zhou Xiaoli was afraid that Hong Tao would not be able to speak clearly, so she first introduced his condition on behalf of Hong Tao, and then answered a few questions similar to medical insurance, and the two chatted for about a quarter of an hour, and finally remembered that there was such a patient in the house, so a thermometer was inserted into Hong Tao's mouth.
After taking her temperature and blood pressure, the female doctor began to crack on the computer, and asked Zhou Xiaoli about her time from time to time, as if she was making an appointment for something.
Hong Tao is most annoyed by this kind of doctor who hides everything from the patient, and he endured the pain all over his body and ran here, without even asking for his opinion, and began to contact any laboratory, which is too unexpected.
At Hong Tao's insistence, the female doctor had to explain the treatment of Hong Tao's condition to Hong Tao in detail, there were things that Hong Tao didn't understand, and then Zhou Xiaoli was a translator, and the three of them chatted for more than 40 minutes, and Hong Tao understood that seeing a doctor here in Canada is completely different from the process in China.
It turns out that the medical system in Canada does not allow private capital to intervene, all hospitals are all national hospitals, not a private hospital, and the largest contributor to medical insurance is the Canadian federal government and local government, so this medical insurance is mandatory, every Canadian citizen and permanent resident will get a health card, immigrants or foreigners can also get this card, but you must live in Canada for 3 months before you can buy medical insurance, and enjoy the same medical treatment as Canadian citizens.
However, those Canadian hospitals cannot be treated casually, except for trauma and emergency services that must be treated in a timely manner, national hospitals do not accept ordinary patients. What if you get sick? The answer is very simple, just go to this kind of private practice, generally every community will have at least one such private practice, and then add a specialist clinic like dental, ophthalmology.
It doesn't cost anything to go to these doctors, they pay their salaries by the federal or local government, and they will take care of your condition first, and then they will decide whether you can take some medicine or go to a major hospital to continue your treatment. This means that if you want to be admitted to the hospital, unless you are seriously injured or have been bitten to death, you have to triage through the doctors in these private clinics, and then they will connect you with the hospital.
It doesn't cost money to see a doctor in Canada, but it costs a lot of money to take medicine, all private clinics, including hospitals, will not give patients medicine, that is to say, you can't get medicine from them, they will only give you a prescription, and then the patient takes this prescription to the pharmacy to buy the drugs written on the prescription, generally the drugs on this prescription are enough for you to take for 2 or 3 days at most, after eating, you have to call the doctor in the private clinic again, and then they will check it for you, Then decide whether to continue prescribing your medication.
So in Canada, you can put 10,000 hearts at ease, and doctors will never prescribe more drugs to patients, because the purchase of drugs is separate from the medical system, and doctors don't get a penny out of the medicines. On the contrary, you have to worry about 100,000 hearts, find a way to get the doctor to prescribe more medicines for yourself, who wants to run to the clinic and pharmacy all day long, and if you can't finish it for two more days, you can keep it for emergency later.
What makes Hong Tao even more incomprehensible is that most of the tests and laboratory work are no longer done in clinics and hospitals, for example, if you want to take a B-ultrasound, the doctor in the private clinic or hospital will help you make an appointment with a laboratory close to your address, and then you will go to where to get the test by yourself, and you don't have to pick up the final test results, they will share the test results through a medical network, and you can wait for the doctor's call at home.
In Zhou's case, she has to pay dozens of dollars a month to hire a private doctor, this private doctor is not the kind of private doctor on call, this doctor may be responsible for the medical consultation of hundreds of people in the community at the same time, which means that if you have any health and medical questions, you can call him, and he can also recommend you to the doctor he thinks is appropriate, but don't look for him.
This female doctor was recommended by Zhou Xiaoli's personal doctor, but she didn't have the consciousness of acquaintances at all, so she refused to prescribe a piece of medicine to Hong Tao even if Hong Tao said it, but suggested that Hong Tao first test the blood, and then decide how to treat it.
Hong Tao understands, if you have a little illness here, basically don't expect to have medicine to eat, the pharmacy will not dare to sell you medicine without a doctor's prescription, you can't even enter the hospital, and the private clinic will be even more finished, just Hong Tao's little fever, which is obviously a symptom of a cold, the only advice given by the female doctor is to drink more water, rest more, and endure the rest by yourself, and there will be nothing to do in a few days, if the condition changes, come to her again.